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Rare Yu-Gi-Oh! game card causes judicial auction to stop after bids reach US$13.4 million
- The auction was to sell frozen assets that belonged to a man in jail for embezzlement
- The card is believed to be one of 500 special edition cards released in 2019
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A Chinese court aborted an online auction of a criminal’s possessions after the public jacked up the highest bid to 87 million yuan (US$13.4 million), likely to get their hands on a highly valuable collectible Yu-Gi-Oh! game card.
Collectors believe the card, depicting a Blue-Eyes White Dragon, is one of 500 limited edition cards released in 2019. They predicted that the card is currently valued at between 200,000 to 300,000 yuan (US$31,000 to US$46,000).
The sale was hosted by the Chuzhou court in east China’s Anhui province on Monday on an online auction platform created by Alibaba Group, which also owns the South China Morning Post.
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The owner of the items was Zhang Yujie, who was sentenced to life in prison in 2020 after being found guilty of embezzling nearly 70 million yuan (US$10.8 million) from a government fund under his management.
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Zhang’s possessions were auctioned with a starting bid of 80 yuan (US$12) and the court estimated the goods were valued at 100 yuan (US$15).
Other possessions being auctioned included a PlayStation 4 adorned with gold and diamonds, multiple Nintendo Switch consoles and other electronics from Sony and Apple, but they were auctioned separately.
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